EC-Funded Research & Development Programmes

Abstract

Applications for EC grants for collaborative, multinational cost-sharing research in the EC’s R&D Framework Programme are always made in response to calls for proposals by the European Commission, published in the C Series of the Official Journal of the European Communities. Companies of all sizes, academic research establishments and independent research organisations may be eligible for financial support, but smaller companies may find that administrative costs of preparing applications over a period of months are prohibitive. In such cases, it may be more appropriate to offer their services as specialist sub-contractors to larger companies. No would-be participant is eligible to apply independently of a call for proposals, or put proposals to the Commission which do not lie within the scope of the agreed Framework Programme.